Sub-City Real Estate Price Index Forecasting at Weekly Horizons Using Satellite Radar and News Sentiment

Reliable real estate price indicators are typically published at city level and low frequency, limiting their use for neighborhood-scale monitoring and long-horizon planning. We study whether sub-city price indices can be forecasted at weekly frequency by combining physical development signals from

February 20, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Time consistent portfolio strategies for a general utility function

We study the Merton portfolio management problem within a complete market, non constant time discount rate and general utility framework. The non constant discount rate introduces time inconsistency which can be solved by introducing sub game perfect strategies. Under some asymptotic assumptions on

February 20, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Weak error approximation for rough and Gaussian mean-reverting stochastic volatility models

For a class of stochastic models with Gaussian and rough mean-reverting volatility that embeds the genuine rough Stein-Stein model, we study the weak approximation rate when using a Euler type scheme with integrated kernels. Our first result is a weak convergence rate for the discretised rough Ornst

February 20, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Beyond the Numbers: Causal Effects of Financial Report Sentiment on Bank Profitability

This study establishes the causal effects of market sentiment on firm profitability, moving beyond traditional correlational analyses. It leverages a causal forest machine learning methodology to control for numerous confounding variables, enabling systematic analysis of heterogeneity and non-linear

February 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Portfolio Allocation: A Comparative Study with Mean-Variance Optimization

Portfolio Management is the process of overseeing a group of investments, referred to as a portfolio, with the objective of achieving predetermined investment goals. Portfolio optimization is a key component that involves allocating the portfolio assets so as to maximize returns while minimizing ris

February 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Impacts of Economic Policies on Wealth Distribution in Token Economies

In this paper, we analyse the impacts of exogenous and endogenous factors on wealth distribution in the Bitcoin token economy, where wealth distribution refers to the distribution of BTC between economic participants or groups of economic participants. The objective of the paper is to analyse the im

February 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Local risk-minimization for exponential additive processes

We explore local risk-minimization, a quadratic hedging method for incomplete markets, in exponential additive models. The objectives are to derive explicit mathematical expressions and to conduct numerical experiments. While local risk-minimization is well studied for Lévy processes, little is know

February 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Information Dynamics of Insider Intent: How Reporting Inversions (Form 144) Mask Informational Rents in Insider Sales (Form 4)

This study identifies and quantifies a significant informational friction embedded in the SEC Form 144 disclosure regime, characterized as predictive decoupling. Drawing on a theoretical foundation of welfare economics, the article argues that the current reporting inversion – where trade execution

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · thequant.space

The Strategic Gap: How AI-Driven Timing and Complexity Shape Investor Trust in the Age of Digital Agents

Traditional models of market efficiency assume that equity prices incorporate information based on content alone, often neglecting the structural influence of reporting timing and cadence. This study introduces the Autonomous Disclosure Regulator, a multi-node AI framework designed to audit the inte

February 19, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Wiener Chaos Approach to Martingale Modelling and Implied Volatility Calibration

Calibration to a surface of option prices requires specifying a suitably flexible martingale model for the discounted asset price under a risk-neutral measure. Assuming Brownian noise and mean-square integrability, we construct an over-parameterized model based on the martingale representation theor

February 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Caratheodory, Finite Resources and the Geometry of Arbitrage

Caratheodory’s axiom of adiabatic inaccessibility states that, in any neighborhood of a thermodynamic state, certain states remain unreachable via adiabatic processes. Non-arbitrage mirrors this topological restriction in finance. Preserving this constraint in resource-limited systems identifies the

February 18, 2026 · 1 min · thequant.space

Computing Tarski Fixed Points in Financial Networks

Modern financial networks are highly connected and result in complex interdependencies of the involved institutions. In the prominent Eisenberg-Noe model, a fundamental aspect is clearing – to determine the amount of assets available to each financial institution in the presence of potential defaul

February 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Entropy Regularization under Bayesian Drift Uncertainty

We study entropy-regularized mean-variance portfolio optimization under Bayesian drift uncertainty. Gaussian policies remain optimal under partial information, the value function is quadratic in wealth, and belief-dependent coefficients admit closed-form solutions. The mean control is identical to d

February 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Money-Back Tontines for Retirement Decumulation: Neural-Network Optimization under Systematic Longevity Risk

Money-back guarantees (MBGs) are features of pooled retirement income products that address bequest concerns by ensuring the initial premium is returned through lifetime payments or, upon early death, as a death benefit to the estate. This paper studies optimal retirement decumulation in an individu

February 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Stackelberg Equilibria in Monopoly Insurance Markets with Probability Weighting

We study Stackelberg Equilibria (Bowley optima) in a monopolistic centralized sequential-move insurance market, with a profit-maximizing insurer who sets premia using a distortion premium principle, and a single policyholder who seeks to minimize a distortion risk measure. We show that equilibria ar

February 18, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

From Chain-Ladder to Individual Claims Reserving

The chain-ladder (CL) method is the most widely used claims reserving technique in non-life insurance. This manuscript introduces a novel approach to computing the CL reserves based on a fundamental restructuring of the data utilization for the CL prediction procedure. Instead of rolling forward the

February 17, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Quantum Reservoir Computing for Statistical Classification in a Superconducting Quantum Circuit

We analyze numerically the performance of Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) for statistical and financial problems. We use a reservoir composed of two superconducting islands coupled via their charge degrees of freedom. The key non-linear elements that provide the reservoir with rich and complex dyn

February 17, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Computational Framework for Financial Structures

Financial structures such as securitisations, insurance contracts, and other hierarchical claims systems can be interpreted as deterministic allocation mechanisms acting on stochastic inflow processes. This paper develops a general computational representation of such structures by separating the st

February 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Application of Quasi Monte Carlo and Global Sensitivity Analysis to Option Pricing and Greeks

Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) and Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) techniques are applied for pricing and hedging representative financial instruments of increasing complexity. We compare standard Monte Carlo (MC) vs QMC results using Sobol’ low discrepancy sequences, different sampling strategies, and v

February 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Autodeleveraging as Online Learning

Autodeleveraging (ADL) is a last-resort loss socialization mechanism used by perpetual futures venues when liquidation and insurance buffers are insufficient to restore solvency. Despite the scale of perpetual futures markets, ADL has received limited formal treatment as a sequential control problem

February 16, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space